[Gambas-user] Gambas Foundation?

[Gianluigi]

Il giorno mar 30 nov 2021 alle ore 14:06 Tobias Boege via User <
user at lists.gambas-basic.org> ha scritto:

> On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, martin p cristia wrote:
> > Great idea. But as this is voluntary and everyone has a little time....
> Also
> > Gb got big, not all have the big picture or the required skills of it,
> but
> > if we can make some "departments", say:
> >
> > -Gb/Ide
> >
> > -Gb/Qt
> >
> > -Gb/GTK
> >
> > -Gb/distros
> >
> > etc
> >
> > People can make small teams that take up specific tasks to it. Then,
> beside
> > using it, we can maintain/improove our part while the boss directs the
> > orchestra.
> >
> > Just a morning idea...
> >
>
> People can already do all of these things. Is a foundation that forms
> official
> teams really what users have been waiting for to start contributing to
> Gambas,
> reading code, fixing bugs, writing documentation and implementing features?
>
> I am allergic to artificial and unnecessary bureaucracy, so I will ask:
> What is the problem with Gambas that a foundation solves and how? Is it a
> legal (trademark, copyright, representation) or administrative (resource
> management) problem? Or what?
>
> If the problem is that there are no contributors and no group of people
> which
> excludes Benoît can maintain Gambas, then the solution is training people,
> not necessarily making a foundation. Nobody starts tinkering on Gambas
> internals
> because we have a foundation now. This is why I ask for clarification about
> what you imagine the foundation should **do**.
>
> What I can imagine:
>
>   - We do have some resources that are managed by individuals:
>     domain names, web servers, mailing lists, IRC channels. Perhaps it
>     would be beneficial to have a legal entity comprised of multiple
>     individuals which have the keys to all of these resources.
>     (Of course, this comes with organizational overhead. There are
>     programming language foundations which regularly elect a board,
>     so I imagine they change all of their passwords at least with
>     the same regularity.)
>
>   - The Perl Foundation, for example, sponsors grants. These are
>     sourced from donation money and distributed to applicants on a
>     competitive basis. The applicants have to write a proposal for
>     what they want to do with their "salary" and regular reports
>     about their progress. (Of course, you need donations for that.)
>
> But still, I want you to consider that you are in the Gambas foundation
> TODAY
> with four other people and Benoît declares that he will become a
> wine-growing
> hermit in SIX MONTHS. Why is Gambas better off next year with the
> foundation
> than without it?
>
> Best,
> Tobias
>

Hi Tobias,

well write as usual.
I make two (small) donations to Gambas (by clicking on the Donate button
here : http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html ) one at Easter and one
at Christmas (it's easier to remember).
:-D
Regards
Gianluigi
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